Thrift means wise management.
A thrifty person never wastes what could be saved by thoughtfulness.
A thrifty person is one who does not waste anything, but gets the full value of everything.
A thrifty person sets traps to catch the waste, and changes it into things worth having.
Those who know, say that American people are the most wasteful of all people in the world.
They tell us that we waste money, food, forests, time, energy, and thousands of the little daily supplies which we might save.
If we all save what we can, it will be a very large amount when added together.
It seems like a little thing to throw away one sheet of paper, doesn’t it?
Suppose you count the number of sheets of paper in your writing pad at school. Let us say there are one hundred sheets, and that each pad costs the Board of Education five cents. If there are forty thousand children who waste one sheet of paper a day, the wasted sheets will amount to four hundred pads a day. At five cents a pad, four hundred pads will cost twenty dollars a day. There are about two hundred school days a year. Multiply twenty dollars by two hundred and you will find that the wasted sheets would cost four thousand dollars in a school year!
You would never have imagined that, would you? See how much the school boys and girls can save for the taxpayers, and for the children who will come to school later. That is being thrifty.